€200 - €400
Star Lot: An original W. Lee Hankey (Chester, b.1869 - d.1952) etching titled "In The Garden" featuring a mother with her child on her lap, enjoying the fresh air. Beautifully observed with wonderful achievement of dimension and perspective. Signed in pencil and stamped to base. Titled to verso. Housed in a smart black frame. Hankey has a strong auction history with his prints fetching into the early hundreds.
MM: 32 x 37 cm including frame
William Lee Hankey (1869–1952) RWS, RI, ROI, RE, NS was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialised in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children such as "We’ve Been in the Meadows All Day". He was born in Chester and worked as a designer after leaving school. He studied art in the evenings at the Chester School of Art (now the Department of Art and Design at University of Chester), then at the Royal College of Art. Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favoured rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896 and was President of the London Sketch Club from 1902 to 1904. He stayed in France in the early 1900s, painting many of his works in Brittany and Normandy, where he depicted a peasant lifestyle which was already disappearing in England. From 1904 until well after World War I he maintained a studio at the Etaples art colony.
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